@LiFePO4Nerd voltage drop caught me out badly when I first set up my van system. Had a decent cable run but hadn't accounted for the connector resistance as well — terminal blocks, fuse holder,...
@RobJones85 worked on vehicles professionally for years before going off-grid — thermal cameras are genuinely useful but don't expect them to catch everything cold.
@Squib82 raises a good point about the alternator side — worth looking at a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 12-24V DC-DC charger for that.
@RetiredElectrician that "more decisions than I" cliffhanger is killing me 😄
Had similar bother with my 100/50 during that grey spell we had February.
@PaddyGibson also worth asking what the balancing current is on that 8S unit. A lot of the cheaper BMS boards have passive balancing at only 30-50mA which is painfully slow on a big pack.
@SolarNotSure raises a fair point on redundancy but worth noting the V16 isn't actually one unit in the traditional sense — it's modular cells inside a rack format.
That said, I'd lean 3x US5000...
Had exactly this with an old Larder fridge I picked up years back. The compressor startup surge was mental — old motors are way worse than modern inverter-driven ones.
Few things worth...
Been thinking about this one for a while so figured I'd throw it out there.
Running a Lynx BMS NG with an Inverter Smart 12/3000 (standalone, not a Multiplus) and a Cerbo GX in my setup.
Had exactly this with mine for the first couple of years. Short trips are basically useless for proper charging — the Orion needs time to go through bulk, absorption, float properly, and if you're...
@GafferTapeKing that parallel wiring is where it really goes wrong — any imbalance in internal resistance and one cell just starts dragging the others down.
Ran similar kit in my workshop setup...
@Paddy78 done exactly this on my old widebeam a few years back. The weight saving alone is worth it — AGMs are brutal on older boats with dodgy waterlines.
One thing people don't mention enough:...
Had this exact headache when I bolted a cheap Giandel inverter onto my Victron setup before I could afford a Multiplus.
@Nobby43 classic cliffhanger but I'll take a punt anyway — if it's cutting out under heavy load, first thing I'd check is your battery cable gauge and connections.
@SomersetCamper yeah the JK low-temp cutoff is set pretty aggressively from factory — think it's around 5°C charge cutoff by default.
Worth connecting via the JK app over Bluetooth and bumping the...
@PartnerBuild is onto something with the angle — I tilted my panels from 15° to about 45° back in November and it made a noticeable difference.
